How did we pick these?
There are no partners, clients or sponsored entries on this list. Nothing in clients.json runs a restaurant in Hunt County, so the scaffold pre-filled nothing and nothing was cut for a relationship. Every pick is editorial.
The test was a street address inside Greenville that holds up across at least two independent records, plus confirmation the kitchen is actually serving now. Four of the eight publish their own websites, which is where the addresses, phone numbers and hours in those entries come from. The other four were pinned through the Greenville Chamber directory, the city's own business directory and current review listings.
The second test did most of the cutting. Los Quates still ranks in search for Greenville Mexican food, and its listed address, 2919 Lee Street, is La Catrina's front door. Molina's No 3 at 8119 Wesley Street is flagged permanently closed, and a second Molina's listing at 3811 Wesley Street is closed too. El Fenix comes up constantly for Greenville and shows a 3102 I-30 frontage address on the delivery platforms, but the company's own location list does not carry a Greenville restaurant, so we left it off rather than send people to a door we could not confirm. El Rey Seafood Shack on Johnson Street exists on exactly one ordering platform and nowhere else, so it is out until a second record appears.
We also label two things plainly. TaMolly's is a six-restaurant regional chain, ranked last for it. Mariachi's street number is published two ways, 5403 and 5469 Wesley Street, on the same phone number, and we say so in the entry rather than pick one and hope.
What should you know before you go?
Greenville's Mexican food splits cleanly in two, and the split is geographic. Downtown Lee Street has the taqueria and the full-service room. Wesley Street, the highway strip, has the tortilleria, the seafood and the bar and grill.
| Restaurant | Style | Where | Price |
| Tortilleria La Norteñita | Tortilleria and taqueria | Wesley St | $ |
| La Catrina Street Tacos | Street tacos, sit down | Downtown Lee St | $ |
| Don Toro Latin Cuisine | Full-service Tex-Mex | Downtown Lee St | $$ |
| El Palenque Salas | Full-service Mexican | North Wesley St | $$ |
| Mariachi Mexican Bar and Grill | Bar and grill | South Wesley St | $$ |
| Pelon's Tacos | Taco truck | Moves, call first | $ |
| Mariscos Del Golfo | Mexican seafood | Lee St, east | $ |
| TaMolly's | Chain Tex-Mex | I-30 frontage | $$ |
Two practical notes. Only one kitchen on this list opens before eleven, so breakfast tacos mean Tortilleria La Norteñita or nothing. And the published closing times on the two downtown rooms disagree between platforms by as much as two hours, so a nine o'clock dinner needs a phone call first.
Where should you eat tacos versus plates?
If you want tacos, go downtown or to the truck. La Catrina does birria and street tacos in a room you can walk to from the square, and Pelon's does them out of a window at truck prices. Both are short menus done one way.
If you want plates, fajitas, enchiladas and a margarita, that is Don Toro on Lee Street or El Palenque Salas up on north Wesley. Don Toro is part of a three-kitchen family group that also runs rooms in two towns we have covered, which is useful if you are driving the region: see the best restaurants in Bonham and the best restaurants in Commerce.
And if you want fish, there is exactly one answer. Mariscos Del Golfo on Lee Street is the only mariscos kitchen in Hunt County, and it is worth the trip for the whole fried tilapia even though the rest of the menu is uneven.
What should you do next?
Start at Tortilleria La Norteñita on a weekday morning, eat breakfast tacos, and buy a bag of tortillas on the way out. That is the single best half hour of Mexican food in Greenville and it costs almost nothing.
For dinner, walk the downtown block and choose between La Catrina and Don Toro by whether you want tacos or a plate. If you are passing through late or on a Sunday, TaMolly's by the interstate is the one that will be open.
More of Hunt County sits on our Greenville hub, and the full best Mexican restaurants section covers the rest of the state. If you want the wider picture of what to eat in town, our guide to the best restaurants in Greenville ranks every kitchen in the city, and forty-five minutes northeast the best Mexican food in Paris, Texas covers Lamar County.
